In Defense of Management - Barbara Czarniawska gave intriguing public lecture

The 25th of February 2013, professor Barbara Czarniawska held a public lecture at CBS. The event was fully booked and with great attention 90 people lisented when she took us through the history of management in her lecture "In Defense of Management".

Abstract: It is estimated that management will continue to increase in relation to other occupations. This fact, far from producing joy or gratefulness, is met with an increasing hostility towards the occupation. This hostility is not produced by our colleagues in critical management studies - like every art, management needs its critics - but by its often thoughtless enthusiasts. After having reviewed some most blatant examples from what Nigel Thrift called "cultural circuit", comprising business schools, management consultants, management gurus, and business media, I will suggest a way of building an old-new alliance, necessary in order to retrieve the positive meaning of management.

Watch the lecture, did you miss the lecture? It was video-taped and you can watch it here: